🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 24

An excellent example of polysynthesis is seen in the combination _ndalagaʿkimzi Alsigontegok_, “I learned it at St. Francis” (Abenaki), which may be analyzed as follows: _n_, inseparable prefix of the first person, _dal_ the prepositional element “in” or “at” (cf. the separable post-position _tali_, “in”), √_agaʿkim_, the root “to learn, teach”--itself a reduplicated form of original √_kim_, “learn”--and, finally, -_zi_, the reflexive ending.

Who acts: knowledge, example, zi · What happens: see n, learn, analyze, follow, teach, reduplicate · To what, where: excellent example, combination, example, Francis, polysynthesis, first person · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knowledge, example, zi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

Pragmatics

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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